[Tim Peters]
>>> ...
>>> trying 7 digits
>>> 000 reached by 10 inputs
>>> 8429652 reached by 990 inputs
[Massimo Di Pierro]
>> This is interesting
>>
>> The probability of a single fixed point in in 10**7 numbers is quite small.
[Tim]
> [elaborates, but doesn't really explain anything ;-)
[Massimo Di Pierro]
> This is interesting
[Tim Peters]
>> trying 7 digits
>> 000 reached by 10 inputs
>> 8429652 reached by 990 inputs
[Massimo]
> The probability of a single fixed point in in 10**7 numbers is quite small.
Well, note that the program was looking for cycles, not for fixed
"kirby urner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Yutaka Nishiyama has this interesting article in the March 2006 issue
of Plus, entitled 'Mysterious number 6174'.
The theorem in this article is as follows: any 4-digit positive
integer, stipulating all 4 digits *not* be
This is interesting
trying 7 digits
000 reached by 10 inputs
8429652 reached by 990 inputs
The probability of a single fixed point in in 10**7 numbers is quite
small.
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
trying 7 digits
000 reached by 10 inputs
8429652 reached by 9
[kirby urner]
> Yutaka Nishiyama has this interesting article in the March 2006 issue
> of Plus, entitled 'Mysterious number 6174'.
>
> The theorem in this article is as follows: any 4-digit positive
> integer, stipulating all 4 digits *not* be the same one, may be
> distilled to 6174 by the follow
kirby urner wrote:
Yutaka Nishiyama has this interesting article in the March 2006 issue
of Plus, entitled 'Mysterious number 6174'.
The theorem in this article is as follows: any 4-digit positive
integer, stipulating all 4 digits *not* be the same one, may be
distilled to 6174 by the following
Yutaka Nishiyama has this interesting article in the March 2006 issue
of Plus, entitled 'Mysterious number 6174'.
The theorem in this article is as follows: any 4-digit positive
integer, stipulating all 4 digits *not* be the same one, may be
distilled to 6174 by the following
process: extract the
